Mariatu lives in Port Loko, a once-bustling mining district in northern Sierra Leone where Ebola is currently spreading like a wildfire. The deadly virus has changed everything here. Fear and anxiety are palpable. Movement is restricted and high-risk...

Last week, a former Minnesota resident died of Ebola in Nigeria. This week, the what-ifs are rampant. The victim's wife said her husband had been scheduled to fly to Minneapolis in mid-August to attend a birthday party for two of their children. "He ...

New Mac malware found in the wild has been linked to the Syrian Electronic Army, but the mysterious hacker group is denying any involvement in making, or spreading, the trojan. On Tuesday, a researcher at security firm Intego revealed in a blog post ...

Three people were indicted Wednesday in New York for being behind a complex international operation that used a virus called 'Gozi' to infect thousands of computers worldwide, stealing citizens' bank information. The FBI has disclosed details of a tw...

A new virus capable of spying on bank transactions and stealing sensitive data such as browser passwords, cookies and network information has been discovered infecting computers in Middle East. Called "Gauss," the virus was designed to siphon data fr...

Whoever designed the Flame malware that's been found infecting computers across the Middle East clearly doesn't want it analyzed. Servers controlling the virus sent a self-destruct command designed to clear any trace of the code from infected compute...

A nasty and complex malware program known as Flame has been unmasked after four years of cyber-attacks on several countries, according to Russian anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab. The firm -- which analyzed the malware over the weekend and revealed it t...

The U.S. and Israel were responsible for creating the Stuxnet computer worm that wreaked havoc with Iranian nuclear facilities, later spreading to the Internet in 2010. That's according to a report from The New York Times, since confirmed by other ne...

There's a trojan out there that tricks computers -- both PCs and Macs -- into redirecting all their Internet traffic through malicious servers. Even though the trojan's creators have been stopped and arrested, millions of PCs could still be infected....

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